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The Knack — My Sharona
Album: Get The Knack
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Released: 1979
Length: 4:51
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Hoo, my little pretty one, my pretty one
When you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Hoo, you make my motor run, my motor run
Gun it comin' off o' the line, Sharona

Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!

M-m-m-my Sharona

Come a little closer, huh, a-will ya, huh?
Close enough to look in my eyes, Sharona
Keepin' it a mystery, it gets to me
Runnin' down the length of my thigh, Sharona

Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!

M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona (Yeah!)

When you gonna give to me, g-give to me
Is it just a matter of time, Sharona?
Is it d-d-destiny, d-destiny
Or is it just a game in my mind, Sharona?

Never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind
I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
My, my, my, aye-aye, woo!
M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my, my, my, aye-aye, woo!

M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Sharona

Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
Hoooooo-ohhh, my Sharona
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Really love the guitar solo, but the lyrics are wat too creepy.
 jjbchansen159 wrote:

Great song,  but what's up with all the pedo references in 80s tunes?


Different thinking about youth and sexuality back then. Woody Allen released "Manhattan" in which the lead, a 42 year-old writer for TV (played by Woody) has a romantic relationship with a precocious 17 year-old (Mariel Hemingway). It was a huge hit and is regarded as one his best films. 

I was a teenager when "My Sharona" came out. My friends and I thought it was catchy but stupid and OTT--like a guy who's always making sexual references and comments. The Knack seemed obsessed with sex. 

In some ways, our society is a lot more sexualized now. The Internet made sexual references and content easily available. But we are a lot more aware and intolerant of sexual abuse and assaults. 
 Droidac wrote:

I would have to say that the line "I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" is a little creepy.



Actually, no. Doug was engaged to Sharona. Even though they broke up, she took care of him while he was dying. 
Sharona is a successful real estate agent in Los Angeles. 
The album cover looks like they just "burned one".    LOL!   
 curtlichter wrote:

It's popularity may have over-shadowed the terrific guitar solo.



The 45 single version cut a full minute from the solo compared to the album edit. One of the best guitar solos ever. 
 jjbchansen159 wrote:

What's with all the pedophile songs in the 70s?



It was the dark side of the Sexual Revolution of the '60's coming to the surface.
i'd kind of like to hear Paolo Nuntini's - Jenny Don't Be Hasty after this. same kind of...theme?
 Roguewarer wrote:

god I hated this song when it first came out.

Now… I Kinda love it.

Go figure.. 🙄




Same Here!!  I guess I'm gettin' senile (just turned 68)!     
What's with all the pedophile songs in the 70s?
god I hated this song when it first came out.

Now… I Kinda love it.

Go figure.. 🙄
 lily34 wrote:


yes, there's another steely dan song of the same ilk, i forget what the title is. maybe everyone's gone to the movies, but i think there's another one, too. creepy. but i do love the dan. and this song, too. although, i never realized the lyrics "i always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" yikes.



Was even worse way back...   Gary Puckett, Young Girl... and so many more lol.  My daughter asked me once, what's with all this pedophile shit?   My my, the times do change... (thank the gods)
One of the greatest  and most underrated  guitar solos of all time. 

This is a timeless classic. Not one one bad song on this album. All of it deriving from the muse that WAS Sharona. 

Thank you Sharona Alperin
 Typesbad wrote:

An immensely dumb song then, and at least as dumb a song now.   And I like hearing it.




Right?? lol   Good times.
Great song,  but what's up with all the pedo references in 80s tunes?
 Akazungu wrote:

My wife and I have a play list called "Songs of Sexual Deviance" including things like Billy Idol's "Sweet 16" and Steely Dan's "Cousin Dupree."

This one makes the list :)



yes, there's another steely dan song of the same ilk, i forget what the title is. maybe everyone's gone to the movies, but i think there's another one, too. creepy. but i do love the dan. and this song, too. although, i never realized the lyrics "i always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" yikes.
Yeah ok. It’s a hormone fueled rave but crank it up! Used to do that a lot.
No thanks.  This can stay on a Sirius way back channel...
 ubuntourist wrote:

Weird Al has spoiled / enhanced so many songs, this being among the first, if not THE first.

Now I no longer hear the originals in my head.




it is in my head now. Funny parody!
Exceptional & undeerrated guitar solo in this often-scorned pop ditty.
Ma, ma, ma, my SCAROTOM!

Sorry folks, that's what we sang in our junior year of high school when this song came on the radio. 
I'll never be able to hear the Queen 'version' properly.  Ever since my sister told me that, because of it's fine acoustics,  Al used a women's bathroom in a dormitory at Cal Poly SLO to record the 'Yankovich version', my brain's sing-along lyric captions read "My Bologna".  This always prompts me to listen to "Another One Rides the Bus" and, maybe, run my entire Wierd Al playlist.

Listening to his music always makes me smile.  Grinning is always indicative of a mood upswing.  Music is a great catalyst for that kind of attitude shift.
I can only remember a tv music show with the "solid gold dancers", gyrating to this song. 

Wooooo woooooo.
Overplayed! ...but, brings back memories! Not a bad tune, but, not great! 
When this song came out, I was dating a girl from Cleveland. and it was overplayed on the radio there. I didn't live there, just visited. We hated it! Now it brings back fond memories! 
Back in the summer of 1980, I was working at the Chevon Research Lab on the east side of Los Angeles, in La Habra And someone sang, to this tune: Your Belinda (get it?). And the Go Go’s were big then too …. Can’t not sing that 40 years later …
 kingart wrote:

Why? Well, r & r is always about sex.  That's what rock and roll MEANS.  But this song is about a groupie and a fan of the band.  That doesn't mean she wasn't schnogging one of the Knack dudes, but maybe it's just about, you know, sex.  What's deviant? 

I would have to say that the line "I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" is a little creepy.

teeny bop hormonal headbanger.  always a fav even for a sr. citizen
 freddyfender wrote:
My, my, my Corana!
 

Aaargh!. That would have been a good comment with correct spelling!
C'mon, now. All those years ago. First couple of times you heard it- My Sharona took up a full-time residency in your head..and stayed there..for awhile
My, my, my Corana!
 Akazungu wrote:
My wife and I have a play list called "Songs of Sexual Deviance" including things like Billy Idol's "Sweet 16" and Steely Dan's "Cousin Dupree."

This one makes the list :)
 
Why? Well, r & r is always about sex.  That's what rock and roll MEANS.  But this song is about a groupie and a fan of the band.  That doesn't mean she wasn't schnogging one of the Knack dudes, but maybe it's just about, you know, sex.  What's deviant? 
Steaming pile when it came out.  It didn't age well.
I use to joke on this song singing "Times New Roman!" :D
 t0m5k1 wrote:
Who is Sharona?

...When Fieger was 25 years old, he met 17-year-old Sharona Alperin
 
A picture of Sharona Alperin appears on the 45 sleeve for this single. 
M-m-m-my Corona...(Wish the virus would leave us soon)
 islander wrote:
I think I had this as one of the miniature  bubble gum records available in the early 80s.

Edit: 
Apparently work about $6 if I hadn't eaten it back in the day.

And I had forgotten how good the song was. 

Always thought  the Toyota motor company should have used this song (My Corona) as an advertisement
Who is Sharona?

...When Fieger was 25 years old, he met 17-year-old Sharona Alperin
 Lemodular wrote:
ma ma ma my corona! 3/25/2020
 

My thoughts exactly! The ear worm special! 
I think I had this as one of the miniature  bubble gum records available in the early 80s.

Edit: 
Apparently work about $6 if I hadn't eaten it back in the day.

And I had forgotten how good the song was.
If you're over 50 you've been humming this for a month now! 
Bye, corona!
ma ma ma my corona! 3/25/2020
 raewah wrote:
A bad rock radio station in Denver played this song for a full 24 hours.  I do remember torturing my mom and pop by playing it for a couple of hours in my locked bedroom.  Maybe that is what is wrong with me today....LOL
 
I've lived in Denver forever, which station?
One of the great pop / rock anthems of all time. The naughty follow up,  "Good Girls Don't" is also quite good 1979!
My my my my sc-ro-tum
Weird Al has spoiled / enhanced so many songs, this being among the first, if not THE first.

Now I no longer hear the originals in my head.
A bad rock radio station in Denver played this song for a full 24 hours.  I do remember torturing my mom and pop by playing it for a couple of hours in my locked bedroom.  Maybe that is what is wrong with me today....LOL
Aye that Bill is a clever one... Ravel's Bolero segue to My Sharona. Not sure if in the history of the universe that has been done, or thought of before.
Remember hearing this on KROQ in Hollywood in the late 70s/early 80s along with Nick Gilder's Hot Child in the City, Lou Reed's I Wanna Be Black, Eddie and the Hot Rods' Do Anything You Wanna Do, Talking Heads Don't Worry About the Government, Blondie's Look Good in Blue -- the domino effect of memory that only music can induce. This song will always be Hollywood Blvd to me. 
Nice to hear, after the Dweezil Zappa performance last week in Utrecht. He played the same song
 ziakut wrote:
Ravel's "Bolero" to The Knack "My Sharona"...only on Radio Paradise! Love it!
 
When I was young and goofy, I used to do the same at parties. Back then hard rock and heavy metal were the "cool thing". There's nothing more satisfying to "shower" a pumped-up crowd with Shubert's "Ständchen", Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" or even Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". :)
I feel my IQ tumbling listening to this excremental nonsense. *Hits skip button*
Nostalgia 8. 
I see this is a repeating pattern - Bolero to My Sharona... perfick.
 ziakut wrote:
Ravel's "Bolero" to The Knack "My Sharona"...only on Radio Paradise! Love it!
 

And again just now. The segue is a bit...jarring but hey it's fun.

The way I remember it, The Knack took some heat even among my teen peers for panting an awful lot about sex in this and their other hits. But for some reason--maybe because the playing is so tight--this isn't a nostalgia piece.
That song is a pop music footnote.
I didn't say stop!

H.J.S.
 Queue wrote:

Sharona now
Sharona Now
 
Are you sure that's not Adam Sandler in drag?
 marktberry wrote:
 

  
Weird Al  is going to be at the Minnesota State Fair with a full orchestra this coming week!

What is he going to conduct? 

 

 

 

 

 

 ziakut wrote:
Ravel's "Bolero" to The Knack "My Sharona"...only on Radio Paradise! Love it!
 
And once again today !
If this song has any shortcomings they are completely erased by that guitar solo!
"My bologna" - Weird Al
 Typesbad wrote:
An immensely dumb song then, and at least as dumb a song now.   And I like hearing it.
 

Absolutely right. But perhaps one is immensely dumb to not like that simple trickster gimmicky but fun guitar break. 
 Akazungu wrote:
My wife and I have a play list called "Songs of Sexual Deviance" including things like Billy Idol's "Sweet 16" and Steely Dan's "Cousin Dupree."

This one makes the list :)
 
I have one I titled "Restraining Order" with "Spoonful" and "It's Now or Never" and Blondie "Call Me" and "I Put a Spell on You" and "Barrel of a Gun" and "I Will Possess Your Heart" and Adele's "Hello" and many more (an unnervingly large number of songs) of romantic obsessions that go way beyond OK. And of course the Police "I'll Be Watching You."

Might have to include this one, as well.

PS: You have Rolling Stones "Little Queenie" on your list, too, right?
immer noch knackig
My wife and I have a play list called "Songs of Sexual Deviance" including things like Billy Idol's "Sweet 16" and Steely Dan's "Cousin Dupree."

This one makes the list :)
I heard this was a decent album. Never had it.
Play other tracks from this album, Bill ?
 kcar wrote:



I was in the heart of the demographic target when this came out and a lot of us thought The Knack were almost obnoxiously obsessed with sex. But yes, dumb and fun. Woo!
 

Yes, looking back at those lyrics...  I think it was ALL of their songs that were just over the top with it.   But hey, it was working for AC/DC, so why not?  Times have changed.
This was one of the better one hit wonders from my school years. It's still good to work out to at the gym.
 curtlichter wrote:
It's popularity may have over-shadowed the terrific guitar solo.
 
I never paid enough attention to this song until today, so just now noticed the incredible solo, and drums to go with it!  New found appreciation!
 StigOHara wrote:
Man, that guitar solo!
 
I'm with you on that one!
very crisp and clear.
Ravel's "Bolero" to The Knack "My Sharona"...only on Radio Paradise! Love it!
Very good drummer and interesting rythm  
One of my first love song 
truly a bad, way over-rated song. Popular only because it was new.
I love to hate this song, somehow original and it has drive, but at the same time such annoying vocals and guitar sound...
Man, that guitar solo!
 kingart wrote:
I've always loved the guitar break. The rest of the tune is either mediocre, annoying, or doesn't belong with the good part. 

 
Yep, it's hard to get through most of it, as I think it was mediocre AND annoying. But, the axe-attack is pretty good. Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned (was everyone else afraid to be too obvious?) but that solo sounds greatly influenced by "I Need a Lover" from then-Johnny Cougar, done in '78, just a year previous. (Interesting that Pat Benatar covered Cougar's tune, too, in 1979, and got much air play with it.)
Bill, please let us in on the theory behind Bolero followed by My Sharona! LLRP!
It's popularity may have over-shadowed the terrific guitar solo.
 Typesbad wrote:
An immensely dumb song then, and at least as dumb a song now.   And I like hearing it.

 


I was in the heart of the demographic target when this came out and a lot of us thought The Knack were almost obnoxiously obsessed with sex. But yes, dumb and fun. Woo!
first late 70s American band to bring back The
Pure nostaligic '79 pop. It was the right place, right time situation...as an antidote to the end of the disco era. Not quite alternative, not quite punk...but a nice influence into this tune. I liked it then...love it now. Thanks, RP. 

A good example of being kind of "meh" when this song came on the radio then or now...but on RP it has a new, much deserved life!

R.I.P. Doug and Bruce
I was working as a bartender during the summer of 1979. This song was played so often on the bar's jukebox that I began to hate it. I was glad when it fell out of favor. Always liked Weird Al's version.
 Alexandra wrote:

 

Albeit slightly creepy.

 


 
Slightly?   Only if you happen to be into 14 year old girls.....
I don't like, I LOVE {#Dancingbanana}
 KevinM wrote:
Garbage then, garbage now.
 
One man's garbage is another man's gold? Well, something like that...

Actually, this is an excellent example of overplay on the radio ruining a fun song with a phenomenal guitar jam.  I get it, some people hate it, but that doesn't automatically make it bad. Art, in whatever flavor or shape, is still art. And, this is one of my all time favorite songs, despite getting dumped by my first real love that year. Anything raunchy and wrong took the edge off! My Sharona and Good Girls Don't did it for me.

I feel sorry for the haters who didn't get The Knack.   
They had it going there for about 6 MONTHS!



I guess I'm more impressed CREEM actually wrote an article about The Jam while they still existed!
 ppopp wrote:
No-one ever needs to hear this song ever again.

 
you're no fun!
You just can't get any funner then that
Is there a better song that this that defines 1979?  Good bye 70s and get ready for the 80s tune for sure.  
 gjeeg wrote:
Catchy and legendary in spite of itself.
(Has that Sweet Jane / Baba O'Reilly chord sequence.)

 
 

Albeit slightly creepy.

 


I remember running out of church on a Sunday just before noon -asked my mom for the keys to the car so I could catch the end of ATF with Casey Kasem on the radio.  This song was #1.  And it rocked. 
Was there too. Surprised to hear it here. It's all good. {#Cheers}
No-one ever needs to hear this song ever again.
Sometimes a song comes down to a time and a place.  If you were there then, the song has resonance that cannot be reproduced if you weren't.  Was there = 8.



Rock and roll sandwich: 4 minutes of stale bread surrounding a nice tasty slice.  

I will always think of Cheech and Chong when I hear this


11:59 amThe Knack
My Sharona
Get The Knack (1979)6.7 11:56 amArctic Monkeys
I Want It All
AM (2013)6.1 11:52 amVelvet Underground
Rock And Roll
Loaded (1970)

Probably would have been a better segue to leave out Arctic Monkeys, but the collision could have cost Bill his FCC license.


I still really believe that Bills plays this because he has a good sense of humour in addtion to an impeccable taste music.
 
There is no denying that, in my cherry '70 Cutlass, with Cragar mags, G60 slicks, and glass-pack mufflers, this sounded great LOUD!
{#Ask}.......why do the letters W, T & F come to mind?
{#Bananajam}des war de Faschingsfetzer 1980 ,
Catchy and legendary in spite of itself.
(Has that Sweet Jane / Baba O'Reilly chord sequence.)
love this any beach boys
didn't know I felt this way, but yes, exactly.

Typesbad wrote:
An immensely dumb song then, and at least as dumb a song now.   And I like hearing it.

 


An immensely dumb song then, and at least as dumb a song now.   And I like hearing it.
The song lyrics are infantile. But with a few beers or some weed, one might conclude that the guitar break earns its keep. I liked it a lot more in 1979. 
O.M.G.
ayatollah
The best version of this song is Vaiche Boa of Heredeiros da Crus. I recommend it.
 MJMJ wrote:

I love both of those songs. Got any others?

 
{#Lol}True. There are plenty of tunes that could be called "dumb" - even The Beatles had some (e.g.:"Ob-La-Di, Ob-la-Da" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer").  Being dumb doesn't automatically make them bad songs.
The Knack,,,,weren't they supposed to be the Beatles of the 80"s or was that Adam Ant? I forget
I'd forgotten how long and painful this song is...
 dragon1952 wrote:
Just about the dumbest song in history .....right up there with Little Willy by Sweet  {#Rolleyes}

 
I love both of those songs. Got any others?
Just about the dumbest song in history .....right up there with Little Willy by Sweet  {#Rolleyes}
I had forgotten how good these guys were as musicians.
still have the vinyl.. {#Dancingbanana}
Ahhh, Highschool.
 
It’s always a good day when you hear “My Sharona."
 
 
Garbage then, garbage now.